Inspiring Women Magazine Spring 2017
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<strong>Women</strong>'s Clubs since 1918. This organization has its headquarters in Washington DC and is<br />
dedicated to community improvement by enhancing the lives of others through volunteer<br />
service. We were most grateful to be recognized at the 2016 Annual Convention by receiving<br />
the International Award for outstanding dedication, volunteer service and community<br />
improvement. It is wonderful to have officers and committee chairs, active and supportive<br />
members, and wonderful affiliate groups to help us carry out the programs, events and<br />
activities with the 100th theme in mind.<br />
We rent a venue where we hold our general and business meetings each month except for<br />
November and January. Our programs include service fundraisers, Holiday Happenings,<br />
speakers, an American Thanksgiving luncheon, an end of year <strong>Spring</strong> Luncheon and<br />
celebrations for our club’s birthday on March 15th. We hold elections at the annual business<br />
meeting in May. This year at our October meeting, we reconnected with talented actor, artist<br />
and set designer, Julian Mulock, who told us stories about his great grandfather, Sir William<br />
Mulock, who was well known in the area. Sir William was adopted as the "Great Uncle" of our<br />
club at the Thanksgiving dinner in 1933. He commented that he liked the friendliness of our<br />
club because we were like the pumpkin pie being served...without an upper crust.<br />
The club also has a selection of interest groups which are held at members' homes or various<br />
venues. One of the most active groups has been the HERSTORY group which has been telling<br />
the story of our club by researching through our own archives of minutes, photo albums,<br />
newspaper clippings and more. We are hard at work getting together a Centenary Memory<br />
Book which will tell a story of our club...fulfilling a vision.<br />
The thread that keeps this club together all these years runs through those who care for others,<br />
who are the ambassadors to our adopted country, and whose persistence, hard work and<br />
dedication have no limits. We keep in touch with those who are homebound or ill through our<br />
visiting chair and we communicate through our (literary worthy) newsletter, a new updated<br />
website (www.awcto.com), social media, phone calls and visits.<br />
TORONTO<br />
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